Amália Baraona 

Is there anything not to love about Jobim's music? He's been present in the most important moments of my life! I grew up listening to Jobim in Brazil and he's been with me all along throughout my life, in the good as in the bad moments. I met my husband in a gig in Zagreb, and guess what was the first song we ever played together minutes after we were introduced? Yeap! It was one of Jobim's classics: Corcovado (Quiet nights of quiet stars). Dinko on saxophone, me on vocals, s

Tonight there was a heavy storm in Skopje. The lightening, thunder and wind were pretty scary...! Best antidote to fear? Thinking of beauty, music, and inevitably, Tom Jobim! This chain of thought led me to the bookcase where my Bossa Nova sources are preciously kept for the rainy days... and the sunny ones too :-) "A onda que se ergueu no mar", by Ruy Castro, is one of those books, a reference for the stories that I love sharing with the public during the Bossa Nova shows. A